To:V. A. KARPINSKY

Written:Written on March 19, 1917Published:First published inPravdaNo. 92, April 22, 1926.

      Sent from Zurich to Geneva.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1976],

      Moscow,Volume 35,

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DearVyach. Al.,

Iam considering every possible way of
			     travelling.[1]The following is an absolute secret. Please reply to me immediately and,
perhaps, best by express (I think we won’t ruin the Party by a dozen extra
express letters), so that I can be sure no one has read the letter.

Takeout papers in your own name for travelling to France and England,
and I willuse themto travel through England (andHolland) to Russia.

Ican put on a wig.

Thephotograph will be taken ofmewith the wig on, andIshall go to the Consulate in Berne with your papers and wearing
the wig.

Youmust then disappear from Geneva for a minimum of a few weeks (until
my telegram arrives from Scandinavia):
for this period you must hide yourself well away in the mountains, where,we shall,of course,payfor your board and
lodging.

Ifyou agree, beginpreparations immediatelyin the most
energetic (and most secret) fashion, and drop me a line at once in any
case.

Yours,Lenin

Thinkover all the practical stepsinvolvedand write to me in
detail. I am writing to you because I am convinced that between us
everything will remainabsolutelysecret.

[1]Ofreturning to Russia.—Ed.